Comedian David Cross has posted a short bit from his upcoming new comedy album on Sub Pop Records. Titled Bigger & Blackerer, the disc is due out May 25, 2010 and was taped during two shows, back-to-back on the same evening at Boston’s Wilbur Theatre.
Check out this bit, which discusses “Coors Light,” right here.
Travis Barker has posted a brief update as work continues on a new album from The Transplants. The band is a collaboration between the prolific Blink 182 drummer, Tim Armstrong of Rancid and rapper “Skinhead Rob” Aston. Here are the relevant Tweets:
Recording some drums for a new song. Transplant$ album is coming out DOPE! Transplant$ is one of the bands i play in and we are recording an album.
Dan Sartain has posted the new video for the first single from his upcoming album. The record is titled Dan Sartain Lives’ and is due out July 20, 2010 . Lives was produced by Grammy Award winner Liam Watson (The White Stripes, ex-Stranglers Hugh Cornwell) and is the long awaited follow-up to the 2006 full length Join Dan Sartain. That album was released on John Reis’ Swami Records.
Weezer‘s version of the The Monkees’ 1966 hit “I’m a Believer” is streaming online. The cover is the band’s contribution to the soundtrack of Shrek Forever After.
The Damned Things have signed to Island Records. The band is a new project featuring Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley, Every Time I Die vocalist Keith Buckley and Anthrax guitarists Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano. Though the band hasn’t posted much music, they have posted a lengthy bio which aims to shed some light on the band’s sound and plans:
The Damned Things’ debut Island/Def Jam album, which combines their love of classic rock anthems and powerful melodies with a heavy metal intensity, turns out to be much more than the sum of the separate parts. This is an amalgam of three very different bands,” explains Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman, who was first introduced to Anthrax’s Scott Ian three years ago, when the two became fast friends and immediately began writing together. “It seemed unlikely, but it turned out we were on the same page musically. We were both interested in putting together a heavy/classic-rock, blues-oriented, riff-based band while trying to stay away from what makes that sound generic and overplayed.”
“This is still all so new to us,” says Scott. “There’s no baggage yet. We’re still very much in the honeymoon period. I remember what it was like to be in Anthrax back in 1984. It’s just really exciting to get to do that again. I’m in a new band again. It’s a blast.”
The Damned Things will make their debut with a show at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn in June. Afterwards the group will head over to Europe and hit the van for the Download Festival with Rage Against the Machine at Donington Park in the U.K. and more.
Tom Petta from New Jersey’s Bigwig has updated fans on the band’s current plans. The group is recording a song for a compilation titled Music 4 Cancer, a benefit record which will also feature NOFX, Face to Face, Frank Turner and Ten Foot Pole among others. The band is planning new relaeses and tour dates for this year, although none of the details in regards to that have been confirmed. Tom commented:
As far as the mail I’m getting about “bigwig breaking up”……this is not true and never happened. The band did take a very long break from touring due to some health problems i was dealing with at the time. It was hell not being able to do the one thing I truly love, playing and touring with my friends…
Isis has called it quits. The band’s ongoing tour, which includes shows with the Melvins and Cave In, will be their last. The band’s final show will be in Montreal on June 23rd. The city is, coincidently, the site of the first Isis performance. The Los Angeles-based post-metal act commented on their MySpace page:
This end isn’t something that occurred over night and it hasn’t been brought about by a single cataclysmic fracture in the band. Simply put, ISIS has done everything we wanted to do, said everything we wanted to say. In the interest of preserving the love we have of this band, for each other, for the music made and for all the people who have continually supported us, it is time to bring it to a close. We’ve seen too many bands push past the point of a dignified death and we all promised one another early on in the life of the band that we would do our best to ensure ISIS would never fall victim to that syndrome…
This doesn’t meant the end of Isis recorded material just yet. The band plans to complete a final EP and compile live audio and video material for future release. SourceContinue reading Isis (1997-2010)→
Retro metal outfit The Sword will be releasing their first concept album, Warp Riders, August 24, 2010 on Kemado Records. The band worked with producer Matt Bayles (Pearl Jam, Mastodon, Isis) and the album is a “psychedelic space opera that explores temporal themes of death and rebirth.”
Off with Their Heads have posted another new song from their upcoming Epitaph Records debut. The record is titled In Desolation and is due out June 8, 2010. The band also has a new “webisode” from the recording process of the album. Find that here.
Gaslight Anthem have posted another new song from their imminent new album, American Slang. The record is set for release on June 15, 2010 and follows the band’s acclaimed album, The ’59 Sound which was released in 2008.
Philadelphia lawmakers are currently considering a bill which could have severe repercussions for the cities music scene. The bill, numbered 100267 and subtitled Referred to the Committee on Licenses and Inspections, was proposed by Darrell Clarke and Bill Greenlee. The effect of the bill is to create a new list of requirements and restrictions to which promoters will need to follow. The City Paper digested the bill and provided this summary:
Under the proposed rules, promoters would have to apply for a permit from the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) 30 days before every single event – meaning if you promote a weekly club night, that’s 52 permit applications per year . More than just a bureaucratic nightmare, this would all but abolish last-minute shows or pickup parties. These applications would have to include detailed security plans, the promoter’s business-privilege-license number, the venue’s capacity and the expected crowd. Perhaps most importantly, the bill would hold promoters liable for the actions of the crowds at the events they promote.
Additionally, the bill requires that every permit application include a copy of the contract between the venue and the promoter – in effect, making rental prices and rates for each individual promoter a matter of public record . To make matters worse, the cops can deny a permit for any reason and without explanation up to 10 days before the event – which could devastate businesses that fronted costs, to say nothing of destroying the credibility of those trying to book events.
Comedian David Cross has posted a short bit from his upcoming new comedy album on Sub Pop Records. Titled Bigger & Blackerer, the disc is due out May 25, 2010 and was taped during two shows, back-to-back on the same evening at Boston’s Wilbur Theatre. 
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Philadelphia lawmakers are currently considering a bill which could have severe repercussions for the cities music scene. The bill,